Lake Mead's water levels appear to be trending down again as summer comes to a close. As of October 6, the reservoir's water levels stood at 1,065.71 feet.

Water in Lake Mead has to remain above a certain elevation to pass through Hoover Dam, a process that facilitates the distribution of water as well as generates hydroelectric power to water and ...

As of Monday, Lake Mead water levels were at 1,066.47, just slightly higher than Sunday levels, which were 1,066.46. Request Reprint & Licensing Submit Correction View Editorial Guidelines ...

The surface of the 247-square-mile reservoir, which provides about 90 percent of Southern Nevada’s water, currently sits at 1,066.2 feet above sea level, about 20 feet higher than where the lake ...

As we head into June and the daylight lasts longer, Lake Mead's water level has shown an incredible rebound rising almost 10 feet this year. ... June 4 was 3,565.81 feet above sea level.

The race against climate change doesn’t give much time to refill reservoirs at Lake Mead and Lake Powell, experts say. Lake Mead reached its lowest level at 1,040 feet above sea level in July 2022.

A 5.5 million acre-feet release would plunge Lake Mead to just above 960 feet of elevation in 2024 – a mere 65 feet above “dead pool,” the point at which water could no longer flow past ...

A huge help to that mission came with the completion of the Central Arizona Project in the 1990s. Meant to stop overreliance on groundwater, the 336-mile pipeline transports water from Lake Havasu ...

A study from Arizona State University has found that an amount of water comparable to Lake Mead has been lost from the ground in the period studied from April 2002 to October 2024. (Allen J ...

Groundwater in the Colorado River Basin has declined by 27.8 million acre-feet from April 2002 to October 2024, a loss comparable to Lake Mead and occurring about twice as fast as surface water ...

The water beneath our feet that we use to bathe, drink and water crops is vanishing faster than ever in the Colorado River Basin, according to a new study. A Lake Mead’s worth of water has ...